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Microsoft's Ballmer: Windows 7 Almost Ready
AP via FoxNews.com ^ | January 08, 2009

Posted on 01/08/2009 9:19:57 AM PST by ETL

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft Corp.'s next version of the Windows operating system is almost ready for prime time. That's one message Chief Executive Steve Ballmer delivered on the eve of the official opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show.

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KEYWORDS: microsoft; mswindows7; vista; windows7
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To: DevNet

My Autocad I loaded on the old XP system. The Linux system is for ordinary stuff. I am totally fed up with Microsoft.


41 posted on 01/08/2009 10:09:55 AM PST by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: red irish

AVG Free is great and does everything you need. It’s free. There is a complete internet version for $54.99. I only use the AVG Free. The free version does system scans and e-mail scans. There is no spyware or adware embedded with the free version which is a plus as well.


42 posted on 01/08/2009 10:09:56 AM PST by Conservative_Jedi (Give me Liberty or give me Death!!)
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To: red irish
Are you looking for firewall protection as well? The McAfee product I linked to ('Total Protection 2009'), not only includes a top notch firewall, but covers many other areas of PC security. Check out the details at the site.
Here is the link again:
http://us.mcafee.com/default.asp?cid=10529
43 posted on 01/08/2009 10:10:50 AM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: red irish
Here's the link

AVG Free

44 posted on 01/08/2009 10:12:14 AM PST by Conservative_Jedi (Give me Liberty or give me Death!!)
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To: aft_lizard

You are right. That is why Dell had to offer XP again because all the people returning their equipment or demanding that Vista be removed!

Alot of People had AOL on their computers, doesn’t mean they like it.

Why do you think that Microsoft did their little Mojave Project thing? To convince people that Vista didn’t actually suck!

Are you being paid by Bill Gates?


45 posted on 01/08/2009 10:15:40 AM PST by Holicheese (Get up Tom Brady, get up! PLEASE!!)
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To: red irish

Here’s a direct link to the product details:

McAfee Total Protection 2009 (50% off right now, at $39.99/year)
http://us.mcafee.com/root/popup.asp?path=/en-us/global/html/popups/mtp_learn_more.asp&close=true


46 posted on 01/08/2009 10:16:15 AM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: Eva

I also use AVAST. Its really good.


47 posted on 01/08/2009 10:16:40 AM PST by Holicheese (Get up Tom Brady, get up! PLEASE!!)
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To: ETL

I’ll keep reading about it via my firefox browser.


48 posted on 01/08/2009 10:18:58 AM PST by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: Holicheese

When my son was in college, the university directed all students to AVAST and used it on their own systems.


49 posted on 01/08/2009 10:31:15 AM PST by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: Eva

Can’t beat FREE!


50 posted on 01/08/2009 10:33:17 AM PST by Holicheese (Get up Tom Brady, get up! PLEASE!!)
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To: Conservative_Jedi

AVG 8 had some twitches when it first came out. I’ve used it since its earliest days and am happy with it.

Maximum PC recommends Avira as the best free anti-virus program.

http://www.download.com/Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10322935.html


51 posted on 01/08/2009 10:37:00 AM PST by js1138
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To: rednesss
The DRM in Vista - which adds complexity without delivering value - is what pushed me into Linux. Today my desktop is still XP-Pro, however, I do most of my real work vi NX remote desktop from it to Linux.

I've found NX is the perfect way to smoothly migrate from Windows to Linux.

52 posted on 01/08/2009 10:41:04 AM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: ETL
Hmm.. Maybe by the time it's released, VirtualBox in Ubuntu will support loading it as a virtual machine and I can toy with it from within Linux.. :)

Seriously though, I installed Ubuntu about 4 months ago now and made a real effort to use it exclusively. It turns out that I can do nearly everything with it that I could with windows, and what I can't do, or won't work with WINE, I use VirtialBox to load a windows machine from within Linux. I doubt I'll ever install M$ on one of my home machines again as the base OS.

53 posted on 01/08/2009 10:42:42 AM PST by Dubya-M-Dees (Gun clingin' God Fearin' pissed off redneck.)
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To: The Duke

What does the DRM stop you from doing?


54 posted on 01/08/2009 10:47:55 AM PST by DevNet (What's past is prologue)
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To: TommyDale
"Windows 2000 was originally supposed to be NT5. It was the most solid release ever."

W2kPro was the absolute benchmark. NEVER crashed. Never BSOD. I loved that program.

55 posted on 01/08/2009 11:37:17 AM PST by redhead (Get ready to step into the Era of Hopey Changeness)
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To: ETL

Windows 7 will be market ready quickly. MS took XP and changed the background. Voila! Windows 7.

Joking.


56 posted on 01/08/2009 11:56:34 AM PST by CriticalJ
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To: redhead

I’m still using W2KPro on my home desktop.


57 posted on 01/08/2009 12:08:18 PM PST by 2111USMC
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To: Brett66
I'm not over hating Vista yet...
58 posted on 01/08/2009 12:19:41 PM PST by GOPJ (Newspapers don't need fewer journalists. Newspapers need more readers. STOP LIBERAL BIAS)
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To: Holicheese

Are you being paid by Bill Gates? Wow talk about hyperbole.

Nice to end you argument with something that wholly disqualifies you from further discussion.


59 posted on 01/08/2009 12:45:30 PM PST by aft_lizard (One animal actually eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
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To: DevNet
What does the DRM stop you from doing?

It stops me from utilizing the CPU cycles and disk capacity that it consumes to do the things that are important to *me*.

60 posted on 01/08/2009 1:33:31 PM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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